The indifference with which these smugglers treated these unfortunate human beings speaks to the disturbing irony that today Africans choosing to leave their homeland face the same deprivations of human dignity that millions of Africans first faced centuries ago from the start of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. After all this time, how much has really changed? As these words are being written it is estimated that there are some 20 million people living in bondage around the globe; not working for low wages, but actually shackled and or held against their will. Read more.

Democratic New York Senator Chuck Schumer

"I don't understand why I can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war, an A-R. How is it that easy to buy this type of weapon? How do we not stop this after Columbine, after Sandy Hook? I'm sitting with a mother who lost her son. It's still happening."

GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA 2018

1,859 Deaths, 30 Mass Shootings

"Society as a whole has a fear of addressing our worst secrets. (Just ask any African-American citizen). It's as if we have a societal blindspot that creates an obstacle to understanding. Society as a whole doesn't acknowledge the reality of abuse."